chris jury wrote:I am after a short scale fender- musicmaster, duosonic, bronco, mustang...Squier would be fine.

I was actually considering pickup up one of the new HH cheapo mustangs and reworking it into a music master- just a single neck pickup. But if anyone has ideas, I'd listen.

You've really got to look around if you're after the 22.5/22.7" scale. The newer reissues all have a 24" scale, which is technically "short", but feels pretty much like a full scale. I have one of those Squier Classic Vibe Duo-Sonics, and it does not feel like a short scale guitar. It's actually super nice and one of the most comfortable non-aluminum necks I have played.

Guessing since Bronco was also mentioned that Chris is just looking for 24" scale. The Squier Classic Vibe Duo Sonic is a pretty great little guitar for the cash. Maybe look there. Also, if you aren't tied to the body shape, Peavey T-15 can be had super cheap. I think that one is 23.5" and has pretty killer sounding pickups.

Gotcha! If that's the case and 24" scale is the ticket, those Squire Mustangs and Duos from a few years back really are great. Not sure why the newer HH ones are SO cheap, but the single coil ones from 2008-11ish are quality.

TomWanderer wrote:Gotcha! If that's the case and 24" scale is the ticket, those Squire Mustangs and Duos from a few years back really are great. Not sure why the newer HH ones are SO cheap, but the single coil ones from 2008-11ish are quality.

well, guitar center has the Olympic white ones that are not really available online- plus packages have been disappearing from our front porch lately- So I picked up the HH on the way to practice last night.

Super impressed for the money- I think I need to do a bit of tweaking to the pickup heights, the low E didn't intonate perfectly out of the box, and the high E nut slot 'sitars' a bit...but I've had $2500 gibsons come out of the box much worse.

Plays nice, sounds good. I'm going to wrestle w/ the intonation tonight, make sure it is totally playable, then might do a little fine tuning to the nut, frets, etc.

TomWanderer wrote:Gotcha! If that's the case and 24" scale is the ticket, those Squire Mustangs and Duos from a few years back really are great. Not sure why the newer HH ones are SO cheap, but the single coil ones from 2008-11ish are quality.

well, guitar center has the Olympic white ones that are not really available online- plus packages have been disappearing from our front porch lately- So I picked up the HH on the way to practice last night.

Super impressed for the money- I think I need to do a bit of tweaking to the pickup heights, the low E didn't intonate perfectly out of the box, and the high E nut slot 'sitars' a bit...but I've had $2500 gibsons come out of the box much worse.

Plays nice, sounds good. I'm going to wrestle w/ the intonation tonight, make sure it is totally playable, then might do a little fine tuning to the nut, frets, etc.

I just looked those up, and, holy shit, those are $150 NEW?? Hard to go wrong. Plus, the description on the GC website starts with "Perfect for the raucous sound of indie music, the Bullet Mustang HH is just plain fun to play."

I need to do some work to level the frets, slot the nut properly, and need to figure out what I want to do w/ the pickups (keep, swap, rework for SC/p90?). will start w/ the nut slots. also the tuners kinda suck...will replace w/ gotoh...nothing fancy.